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KITCHENER GOES TO A WATERY GRAVE
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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
KHARTUM HERO AND STAFF ON
WAY TO RUSSIA FOR MEETING
CONCERNING THE TREND OF WAR
H. M.S.Hampshire
Goes Down Off
Orkneys
COMMANDER JELLICO
GIVES THEJAD NEWS
Lost Idol Was Fa
mous in Wars
Os England
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LONDON, June 6.—Admiral Sit
John Jellico, commander in chief of
the British grand fleet, today reported
to the Admiralty that the British
cruiser Hampshire, with Earl Kitch
ener, war minister of the empire, and
lis staff aboard, has been lost. Tne
Hampshire went down off the West
Orkney Islands in the Atlantic ocean
tiid in reporting the occurrence to the
admiralty. Sir John Jellico expressed
the fear that all on hoard went down
with Hie ill-fated warship.
Accompanying Lord Kitchener and
all of whom are missing, w-ere Hugh
James O’Beirne, former councillor of
the British Petrograd embassy, and
former Minister to Sofia 0. A. Fitzger
ald, and Kitcheners private and mili
tary secretaries, Brigadier General
Ellershaw and Sir Frederick Donald
son. All of the party were drowned.
Immediately on receipt of news of
the disaster to the Hampshire, a coun
cil of war was called to meet at the
war office. Following the asembling
of the council, several London news
papers, stating the occurrence an
nounced “neither Earl Kitchener or
Premier Asquith were present.” The
erroneous statement was made possi
ble through ignorance of newspaper
reporters who had not been informed
ol Kitchener's death.
Lord Kitchener and his staff were
on their way to Russia, probably in
tending to land at Archangel in the
White Sea. Their mission was suppos
edly to consult Russian military au
thorities regarding the Russian of
fensive which it is expected will re
lieve the Teutonic pressure on the
Verdun and Italian fronts.
Lord Kitchener, with members of
h:s staff left England following the
recent North Sea naval battle, en
route to Russia, where the war min
ister intended to visit in connection
with operations to be jointly conduct
ed by British and Russian forces. The
Hampshire is believed to have struck
a floating mine, probably released
during the big North Sea battte,
though it is possible the warship con
veying Earl Kitchener was torpedoed
by a submarine.
Reporting the occurrence from his
base this morning, Admiral Jellico
rays little hope is entertained of pick
ing up survivors of the disaster, ow
ing to the heavy sea running in the
vicinity of the catastrophe. Only one
capsized boat and dseveral bodies
floating on the surface have been
found by auxiliaries of the British
grand fleet, now cruising in the vi
cinity where the Hampshire went
down.
Earl Kitchener Raised The
Greatest Volunteer Army the
World Has Ever Witnessed
LONDON, Eng., June 6.—Chief
among the several things that entitled
Earl Kitchener to a place in world
history, the most notable is that he
organized the largest volunteer army
the world has ever seen, in the great
est war of all times. Within a year
the sudden outbreak of the Eu
ropean war in August, 1914, the ranks
of British fighting men were quadru
pled by an increase from less than one
million to nearly 4,000,000.
All other great powers that entered
the war had huge standing armies and
compulsory military service. Great
Brittain alone faced the issue with con
fidence that Its people would readily
respond to the call of king and coun
try, without compulsion, and the pre
cipitious developments that led to the
war found both the people and the
government unanimous in the verdict
that Kitchener of Khartum was the
man to lead in the recruiting and or
ganization of the necessary army.
It was not a sentimental clamor, for
though Kitchener was a proven hero
of many campaigns, his personality
was as impenetrable as hardened steel,
and he was not a hero that could be
loved; even the war office had no pro
nounced liking for him, but on all
(ides there was profound respect for
bis military efficiency and for all ho
bad done to extend the domains of the
British Empire.
By mere luck, Kitchener happened
to be in England on one of the com
paratively rare visits he had paid to
London during his long career abroad
when the European war broke out. He
had just come home from service as
British agent in Egypt, and had ac
cepted an earldom from King George,
and was being talked of as the viceroy
of India. Within a few hours after
England’s declaration of war, Kitch
ener was appointed secretary of sta’e
for war and immediately took full
chargie at the war office, where he
worked day and night to overcome the
handicap which the Central Powers
had over England in the matter of
fighting strength.
He grimly told the British people
they had a bigger war on their hands
than they realized; and one that might
last longer than they expected, but
it w r as to be faced with entire confi
dence, and he, smilingly, almost like a
dehumanized machine, set about to
make things hum. He had scarcely
moved into Whitehall street when he
made numerous changes ini the per
sonnel of the war office, which was
said to be honeycombed with social
and political favoritism.
His Army of Millions.
After dispatching a few hundred
thousand regulars to France and Bel
gium to help check the onrushing Ger
mans, the war secretary began recruit
ing and organizing his army of mil
lions. The British Isles were covered
with signs and posters urging young
men to join the colors. Kitchener
went through the country, superin
tending the drilling of the army. From
time to time were reports indicating
his failure to get the number of men
he wanted, but within a year after the
war opened Premier Asquith officially
announced in Parliament that about
3,000,000 men had enlisted in the
United Kingdom alone, and almost an
other million in the overseas domin
ions.
Kitchener, however, was the object
of no little criticism. There was
much grumbling because of the strict
censorship he Imposed on newspapers
and his utter disregard for war cor
respondents. Notwithstanding this, the
British newspapers gave him active
support prior to May, 1915. During the
winter months the war secretary had
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
tnnounced that the “big drive” would
begin about the first of May. The Bat
tle of Neuve Chappelle occurred in
May, and England believed this was
the beginning of the big drive. Short
ly afterward, reports reached England
that the drive had halted, owing to a
shortage of munitions, especially high
explosives. A section of the London
press then declared that Kitchener
bad made a serious mistake in pro
viding large quantities of shrapnel and
Insufficient high explosives. Newspa
per attacks went so far as to suggest
his being displaced as war secretary,
but the majority of the papers de
fended him. It was agreed that the
raising of a big army and supplying
munitions at the same time was too
g.eat a task for one man. The dis
cussion developed the formation of a
coalition cabinet and the creation of
the new portfolio of minister of mun
tions, of which David Lloyd-George
took charge, while Kitchener remain
ed as war minister.
Without his crowning achievements
as the great organized of the British
campaign in the European war, Kitch
ener had already won wide and lasting
fame by his many campaigns in Egypt,
South Africa and in India.
He was born June 24, 1850, in Coun
ty Kerry, Ireland, a fact that gave
rise to a general belief that he was of
Irish blood, but his parents were of
French and English descent. His fa
ther was a soldier, but of no very high
rank. He had managed to climb to
the lieutenant-colonency of a aragood
regiment, when he retired to the es
tate in Ireland, where Horatio Her
bert Kitchener, the to-be-distinguished
son, was born. Young Kitchener re
ceived his fundamental military edu
cation at Woolwich, where he display
ed only ordinary brilliancy, with the
exception of his liking for mathemat
ics. On graduating he received a com
mission in the Royal Engineers, but
when not yet 21 years of age he at
tached himself to a French army in
the Franco-Prussian war. He had
been in the service only a short time
when he contracted pneumonia during
a balloon flight, and had such a pro
longed and serious illness that he had
to give up further service for France.
Kitchener’s experience in European
warfare—prior to his direction of the
great war of 1914 —therefore, had been
limited to a few balloon flights in
France.
In 1874 when a British expedition
was sent out to survey Western Pales
t,ne, Kitchener was one of the eager
vouunteers accepted for the service
For months he traveled over the hills
and valleys of this peaceable Bible
land, with his theodolite and surveying
tape, and with this life in the open he
grew to be a tall, gaunt, subaltern
with a hard face well burned. His
contribution to the topographical
knowledge of the Holy Land complet,
ed, young Kitchener was sent to Cy
prus, which Great Britain has just
acquired, to organize a system of
courts, a work in which he displayed
administrative ability and tact.
It was while there- In 1882, that he
took his first step on the path that
was to lead him eventually to Khar
tum. Trouble was already brewing in
the Sudan. Hearing that the Egyptian
army was being organized by Sir Ev
elyn Wood, young Kitchener saw his
opportunity with unerring instinct,
and lost no time in offerings his ser
vices. The military authorities, rec
ognizing at once his insight into the
native character, put him into the In
telligence department, and from the
very outset of his Egyptian career ne-
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6. 1916
♦ ROBERTSON TO BE THE NEW
♦ BRITISH SECRETARY OF WAR ♦
♦ ♦
♦ LONDON, June 6.—lt current- ♦
♦ ly stated in well informed circles ♦
♦ here this afternoon that Sir Wil- ♦
♦ liam Robertson, chief of the im- +
♦ perial staff will be named to sue- ♦
♦ ceed the late Earl Kitchener as ♦
British minister of war. ♦
many’killed in
CYCLONE SWEEP
THRU ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 6.—Fifty
persons, and possibly more than this
number, are dead, and two hundred
and fifty injured, as the result of tor
nadoes which struck ten or mors
Arkansas counties late yesterday.
Communications are crippled and
It is impossible to secure full and def
inite information concerning the dam
age wrought.
Twenty-five bodies of victims have
been recovered and fifty persons were
injured at Junsonia, Ark., a town of
eight hundred inhabitants, which was
one-third destroyed.
Eighteen are reported killed and
many hurt at Herb Springs, a hamlet,
and five are known to be dead in Dal
las county.
Four were killed and eight injured
at Hot Springs and at Cabet, near
that place, there are three dead.
At Greenland there is one dead and
fifteen hurt, with two dead, one miss
ing and several hurt, at Merrillton.
Three Dead at Vicksburg.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 6.—ln
formation reaching here this after
noon says three persons were killed
at Vicksburg, Miss., during the tor
nado which swept through this sec
tion this morning.
A telephone message from Heber
Springs early this afternoon, says be
tween twenty and twenty-five white
were killed there and more than fifty
hurt. No estimate of the negroes in
jured was conveyed in the message.
Persons returning here from Jud
sonia since noon says only eight per
sons were killed there, all of the vic
tims being negroes.
Six Killed at Jackson, Miss.
JACKSON, Miss., June 6.—Six per
sons were killed and about fifty oth
ers injured during the'tornado which
swept through the western section of
Jackson early this morning. About
two hundred and fifty houses were
damaged, and the property loss is
heavy.
MRS. HIE IS DEM
YERY SIM HERE
Mrs. M. A. Lane aged 70 years, died
very suddenly about 10 o’clock at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. G.
Oliver, on Felder street.
Mrs. Lane was the widow of Rev.
Wesley Lane, who died in Macon about
three years ago.
The remains will be carried to Ma
con Wednesday morning for inter
ment.
Mrs. Lane was a noble woman, loved
by all who knew her. A lovable
Christian character, she will be missed
in the home and by a large circle of
friends and acquaintances.
Funeral arrangements are in the
hands of the Allison Furniture Co.
DELEGATION IS
IN SAVANNAH 10
LAND MEETINGS
A large delegation of Baracas and
I hilatheas of this city left this
I morning over the Seaboard Air Line
| railway for Savannah to be in at
tendance upon the state convention
| that convenes in that city today. The
party traveled from here in a special
car placed at their disposal by the
officials of the road. The car is hand
somely decorated and equipped with
all modern uonveniences that will
make for the comfort of those travel
ing in same.
This convention promises to be the
most largely attended of any in the
state since the organization of the
Baraca-Philathea movement was start
ed, and of all the delegations that at
tend there will be none more enthus
iastic than those who go from Ameri
cus. The convention will be in ses
sion three days, and the whole time
promises to be one continual round cf
pleasure, interest and zeal in behalf of
this splendid body of workers in the
cause of Christ and humanity.
Secretary Hyman, of the local
Chamber of Commerce, heads the con
tingent from this city, and together
with the balance of the delegation will
do everything possible to secure the
next convention for Americus.
The following is a list of those at
tending from this city:
Furlow Lawn Baraca Class —Mrs. F.
H. Gatewood, E. W. Horne, J. E. B. Mc-
Lendon, H. D. Hansford.
Philathea City Union —Mrs. R. C.
Fetner, Miss Grace McMatli.
Mayor and City Council—E. J. Witt.
First Baptist Philathea Class
Miss Pearl Lott, Miss Florence Bush.
Representing Superintendents of
Sunday Schools —T. F. Gatewood.
Furlow r Lawn Baptist Baraca Class
—B. C. Hogue, M. E. Purvis.
Furlow Lawn Baptist Philathea
Class—Miss Grade Beck.
Presbyterian Philathea Class Mrs.
J. W. Lindley.
Baraca City Union —E. E. Schneider,
E. H. Hyman, Lewis Morgan.
Other Baracas and Philatheas,
friends of the Americus delegation are
expected to join them at the various
stations along the route and enjoy the
pleasures of the special car and the
association of their friends.
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NATIOIUL T. P. 1.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 6.—-Five
cities—New Orleans, Detroit, Louis
ville, Atlanta and Baltimore—are al
ready making their bids Spr the 1917
national convention of the Travellers’
Protective Association, which will
open the 1916 national convention here
on June 4 and will continue through
June 9. Word has been received here
that each of the five cities will send
large delegations to the meeting here
in an endeavor to capture the next
gathering.
The annual jiarade will be held June
5, and the next day will include a num
ber of side trip® and on June 8,200
automobiles will be furnished to take
all of the visitors to Frankford, Ind.,
where they will be the guests of the
Frankford pod of the organization at
a chicken dinner.
It will be the largest convention
ever held in Lafayette and the city is
making elaborate preparations for the
[entertainment of the visitors.
VERNON EASON DEAO
MMJIDNE INJURY
Vernon, the ten-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Eason, died Tues
day morning after an illness of sev
eral days. His death resulted from an
infection of the bone which the beet
of medical skill could not allay.
Young Eason is thought to have re
ceived a small bruise or injury on his
leg, and the disease which followed
infected the bone, reaching the mar
row and poisoning his system.
■ The young man was widely loved by
many friends and his demise is an oc
casion of much regret throughout the
city and by all who knew him.
The funeral arrangements are in
charge of J. H. Beard, of Allison Fur
niture Co.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence on East Church street at« 10
o clock Wednesday morning, Dr. J. A.
Thomas officiating. Interment will be
at Oak Grove cemetery.
LEONARD WOOD IS
ACCEPTABLE TO
TEDDY FOR PHEXY
CHICAGO, June 6. —Republican pol
itical leaders here today are trying to
determine whether Hughes has been
strengthened or weakened by the tem
porary concentration of forces upon
him with the avowed purpose of elim
inating Roosevelt. The effect of the
maneuver may be to place the field
against Hughes when the final ballot
ing test comes.
Republican and progressive leaders
resumed their conferences again this
morning in an effort to bring about
harmony between the discordant ele
ments. George W. Perkins, foremost
of the progressive leaders, except
Roosevelt himself, in a statement be
fore noon today, declared that Roose
velt had not said he would not support
Jlughes or any other nominee of the
republican convention.
Latest developments being consid
ered at today's conferences were
Hughes speech in Washington yester
day; the discussion of Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, as a
compromise candidate.
Hughes supporters now claim his
V ashington speech touching on Amer
icanism makes clear his position
on the only position on which he had
net previously declared himself. His
opponents, however, called it a “list of
platitudes,” many saying the speech
v,as filled with careful sayings of the
practical politicians, and on the out
side the opinion is almost unanimous
In holding the speech is altogether
without significance.
What the progressives convention
will do today overshadowed the repub
lican maneuvering this afternoon, n
tremendous Roosevelt demonstration
being expected to materialize. Despite
al! efforts to delay progressive nomi
nations leaders of tire party decided
today that Roosevelt should be nom
inated as soon as possible, and noth
ing but a request from Col. Roose
velt himself, is to be allowed to in
terfere with there plans. Progressive
headquarters at the Congress hotel
here were formally opened today.
Wood Acceptable to Roosevelt.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 6.—The
nomination of General Leonard Wood
for the presidency would be acceptable
to Roosevelt as a solution of the sit
uation at Chicago, according to two
visitors who saw Roosevelt at his
home here today.
CI TV
edition!
THE PRESIDENT
OF CHINA PASSES
TO GREAT BEYOND
SHANHAI, China, June 6.—Yuan
chi-kai, president of the Chinese re
public. former emperor of the short
lived monarchial era, and foremost
Chinese statesman, died at his home
vesterday morning. Announcement of'
l is demise was withheld until today,
owing to its possible effect upon the
population.
Yuan Sha-wia was one of the most
icmarkable figures deevloped by the
Chinese nation since the Tartar yoka
was thrown off. He was born of the
middle class, but from hte youth as
pired to be a mandarin. Finishing his
education at the foremost of Chinese
universities, Yuan Sha-kai, received
his first political apointment as a mi
nor official in Korea, then a depen
dency of China. He remained there
until the Chino-Japanese war resulted
in Korea being wrested from control
of the Peking government.
He then returned to Pekin, and was
insistent on his demand for a are-or
ganization of the Chinese army and for
the preservation of the integrity of the
nation. At the beginning of the Boxer
Rebellion Yuan Sha-kai opposed the
movement, going so far as to side ac
tively with the despised “foreign
devils.” Later he was of material as
sistance to the allies In restoring or
der in China, and by his wisdom and
sagacity did much to dispel te fanat
ical ideas which caused the upris
ing.
For his services in this connection,
Yuan Sha-kai was raised to an exalted
position by the Chinese emperor, but
later was forced to resign, and for a
number of years lived in seclusion and
political retirement. His Interest In
politics never subsided, however, and
with the beginning of the republican
movement he sprang again into prom
inence. His opinions clashed with
those of Dr. Sun-Yat Sen, with the re
sult that Dr. Sun is now an exile in
Japan.
About a year ago, notwithstanding
protests lodged at Peking by Japan,
England, France, Russia and th®'
United States, Yuan Sha-kai formally
pioclaimed himself emperor of China.
Elaborate preparations were made for
his coronation, but he was destined
never to be thus honored, and after a
brief reign as self-constituted em
peror, Yuan Sha-kai yielded to the
pressure of* internal disturbances and
international protests, again proclaim
ing China. The task of reconstituting
the constitutional assembly was in
progress when Yuan Sha-kai died.
He was a devout Confusiontet, the
head of a large family, and one of the
most profoundly intellectual of Chi
nese statesmen. The funeral arrange
ments have not yeen announced.
MISS THOMAS IS DOING
NICELYJ HILLSBORO
The many friends of Miss Agnes
Thomas, of Plains, will regret to hear
of her illness in Hillsboro, Texas. Miss
Thomas is the attractive daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Thomas, and has
been visiting (her friend, Miss Ruth
Davis, for the past month at Hills
boro. Miss Thomas and Miss Davis
were schoolmates at Shorter College,
Rome, Ga.
News was received last week of her
Illness with appendicitis, and Mrs.
Thomas left at once for Hillsboro. A
letter just received by Mr. Thomas
states that Miss Agnes is now getting
along alright, and her many friends
will wish for her an early recovery.
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TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913